Wednesday, 10/18 Roadside rest just south of Quorn to Wilpena Pound Campground

Old towns, dead towns

     

    We got up before sunrise and left the rest area and drove the half hour to Quorn. A nice little railroad town in the southern Flinders Range that appeared in the film “Gallipoli”, we used their park for breakfast preps, then took a brief tour around the historic railway station and yards and talked to an English/Kiwi/Aussie woman about the fine points of Marmite, Vegemite, and Quondong preserves.

Quorn RR station

Downtown

     On the drive to Flinders Range NP we looked at an old town site identified only by the large dead trees that still stand there.

These trees shaded someone's yard once

     A few kilometers later we walked around the old Kanyaka Homestead, a former sheep station that was abandoned in the late 1890's. We also walked down to Death Rock, where Aboriginal people would go during their dying days.

The main house for a 240,000 acre station that was done in by drought in the 1890's

      We got to the Flinders a couple hours before sundown and did a hike up to Arkoola Rock to see Aboriginal art. We also made friends with a couple wallabies on the way back to the car.

Well protected rock art

                           

     We checked into the campground and made lamb couscous for dinner, and talked to a young German couple for a couple hours, then went to bed.